What wireless cards work with Linux?
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What wireless cards work with Linux?
I need a new wireless card for my kaptop and I'd like one that works easily with Linux. I'd prefer to stay away from a Prism chipset. Any recommendations?
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i use an Asus WL100-g pcmcia card, it has a broadcom 4306 chipset, which was supposed to work out of the box with ubuntu, but didnt, but there are a lot of tuts on how to fix this with ndiswrapper
AFAIK all you really need to do is get ndiswrapper and the windows driver for a card with the same chipset as yours and set it all up, i believe im officially running linksys drivers for my card
what distro are you running Roofus? i assume its KDE based?
AFAIK all you really need to do is get ndiswrapper and the windows driver for a card with the same chipset as yours and set it all up, i believe im officially running linksys drivers for my card
what distro are you running Roofus? i assume its KDE based?
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I'm using Slackware. Since I'm looking to buy a new card, I'd rather buy one that's supported and doesn't need ndiswrapper.Disheveled DrFreeze wrote:i use an Asus WL100-g pcmcia card, it has a broadcom 4306 chipset, which was supposed to work out of the box with ubuntu, but didnt, but there are a lot of tuts on how to fix this with ndiswrapper
AFAIK all you really need to do is get ndiswrapper and the windows driver for a card with the same chipset as yours and set it all up, i believe im officially running linksys drivers for my card
what distro are you running Roofus? i assume its KDE based?
Thanks for that. I was actually looking at an Orinoco. I"ve heard things about Atheros cards. What do you think?Xylene wrote:Orinoco works like trash because of all the goofy firmwares. Apparently the Broadcom chipsets work quite well now and are very common in laptops, especially Dell. The Intel chipsets work fine as well when you download the firmware.
BTW,
Oh. and I'll be sure to look at that "Google" book you suggested.
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ok i understand
the odd thing is though, ubuntu supposedly comes with broadcom 43xx drivers, so my 4306 should have worked out of the box, and it did, sorta, i could activate the card an all, but not connect to a network
the odd thing is though, ubuntu supposedly comes with broadcom 43xx drivers, so my 4306 should have worked out of the box, and it did, sorta, i could activate the card an all, but not connect to a network
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